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caen87
Seasoned Newcomer
21 hours ago

'For Rent' and 'Dine out' still broken?

Sorry if this question has been asked already before, but I would like to know the situation now after the latest patch in September 2025. I have become very interested about "For Rent" expansion pack and "Dine out" game pack, but I don't know whether I dare to buy them because the players have had so many serious problems with them even quite recently, in the end of 2024 or even later. So, if you have these packs, I ask: do you experience still some serious problems? Minor bugs mean nothing to me, but if there are serious gameplay issues like bug with saving the game or difficulties to manage rental apartment or visit or manage a restaurant, that will be a problem. I would love to build rental apartments and restaurants, but it's pity that these packs have such a terrible reputation.

Thanks for your opinion :) !

caen87

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  • Minjwu's avatar
    Minjwu
    Seasoned Newcomer
    16 hours ago

    I'm still experiencing some bugs with 'Dine Out', but nothing I haven’t learned to live with by now.

    As for 'Rent Out', I’m actually starting to receive payments when I have tenants in my properties, which is great. However, I’ve noticed that they sometimes move out even though their lease hasn’t ended yet. 🙂

  • Dine out still has a few problems but I've only noticed them when visiting the EA pre built restaurant that comes with the pack, it's a big venue and by default it only has one chef and one stove, one or two waiters and one host so waiting times there are atrocious but you can add staff and whatnot to make it better in build mode. Can't say I've had that many issues with restaurants I've built myself, whether my sim owns it and lives above it or just ones I've built to dot about the world's. My advice would be two stoves and two chefs that aren't elders, that definitely makes waiting times faster and have a separate door for your staff into the resturant that's locked to everyone else, I found this helped with the staffs routing and when they kept spawning in and just stood outside and never went into the restaurant (I think they have since patched that out but I'm not not 100% sure) it is a fun pack and one I've enjoyed using, it's nice to take your sims out to dinner, and building restaurants, whether you own them or not, is a lot of fun, the running a restaurant side of things is pretty fun and interesting gameplay too 😃